He started with an eBay shop and a student timetable. At ZOLLHOF, Benjamin Bauer is working on a larger coordination problem: helping Northern Bavaria’s founders, researchers, companies and capital find one another.
A CHF 10,000 grant starts the experiment. Three jury rounds later, Swiss researchers are expected to have something much harder than a clever invention: a business people want.
Nuremberg's incubator spent years helping founders without taking their shares. Its next act is a €30 million public-private startup factory - and a fund designed to keep deep-tech talent close to home.